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How Pirates Work
Announcer Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from http://www.HowStuffWorks.com. Josh Clark Arr and welcome to the podcast. I am Josh Clark. With me is the laughing – what was that little laugh? Chuck...
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Ubisoft Takes DRM To Ludicrous Extreme
While watching the live stream of CNET’s Buzz Out Loud podcast, I lost the ability to form a coherent sentence for about 10 minutes. That’s when I learned of Ubisoft’s new digital rights management...
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Damage from Tech Piracy Hard to Estimate
Nate Anderson at Ars Technica has written up a great post about the recent Government Accountability Office report on intellectual property and piracy. As Anderson points out, previous reports about...
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LimeWire May Owe Music Industry Big Bucks
Peer-to-peer networks have a nasty stigma. The technology is perfectly legal — it’s an efficient and flexible way to distribute data across networks. But that’s also why software, music, movie and...
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Court Cuts LimeWire
Nicholas Deleon over at CrunchGear reports that a New York court has ordered the LimeWire service to shut down its uploading, downloading and search features. In case you didn’t know, LimeWire is a...
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The Ethics of Piracy
Announcer Get in touch with technology with Tech Stuff from http://www.HowStuffWorks.com. Chris Pollette Hello again, everyone. Welcome to Tech Stuff. My name is Chris Pollette, and I am an editor at...
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Self-Driving Cars and Ethical Pirates
This week on TechStuff, Chris and I talked about a couple of topics that have been in the news recently. On Monday, we discussed automated cars that take the human driver out of the experience....
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White House Sends Mixed Messages About Online Privacy
It seems like every other day I write or talk about privacy concerns in relation to the Internet. This week, a pair of stories about how the United States government values online privacy broke and...
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Why this brilliant new anti-piracy ad is completely right and also completely...
There is no question about it – this new anti-piracy ad produced by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau is brilliant: It seems completely right – it seems like the ad presents a...
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SOPA and PIPA – What the heck are they?
I don’t know if you’ve noticed but the Internet went kind of crazy today. Crazier than usual. On a normal day, crazy means a flame war or two (thousand), a hundred or so cat videos and more content...
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